Psalm 39:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Hold

Hebrews 5:7

For i am

1 Peter 2:11

As all

Genesis 47:9

General references

Genesis 21:34

Bible References

Hold

You Yourself have recorded my wanderings.
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your records?

The ropes of death were wrapped around me,
and the torments of Sheol overcame me;
I encountered trouble and sorrow.

Perhaps the Lord will see my affliction and restore goodness to me instead of Shimei’s curses today.”

My friends scoff at me
as I weep before God.

During His earthly life, He offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the One who was able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

For i am

I am a stranger on earth;
do not hide Your commands from me.

“The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land.

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

So, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.

And if you address as Father the One who judges impartially based on each one’s work, you are to conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your temporary residence.

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.

As all

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “My pilgrimage has lasted 130 years. My years have been few and hard, and they have not surpassed the years of my fathers during their pilgrimages.”

General references

And Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for many days.